Simulation (IMAGE)

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Simulation

Caption

This is an image of the final stage of a simulation, carried out by the authors, of a catastrophic collision between comets, showing one of the objects formed by re-accretion of debris from the collision, with a shape identical to that of Chury.

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S. Schwartz, P. Michel

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